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Design Illustrator Foundations How to Draw in Illustrator Image Trace

Elena Paraschiv
Elena Paraschiv
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Posted by Elena Paraschiv
Elena Paraschiv
9,938 Points

6:04 How does Mat delete the paths that are empty...

And why does he do it ?

1 Answer

Steven Parker
Steven Parker
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Steven Parker
Steven Parker
229,644 Points

Since the empty paths were already selected, the deletion was probably performed by just pressing the "delete" keyboard button.

The empty paths don't provide anything of value to the trace, so removing them eliminates unnecessary complexity from the trace.